Paper filing and binding device.



I". I. KLEIN. PAPER FILING AND BINDING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I8. 1913.

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PAPER FILING AND BINDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 19, 1915.

Application filed September 18, 1913. Serial N 0. 790,390.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED J. KLEIN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Filing and Binding Devices, of which the following is a specification. I

p This invention relates to paper filing and binding devices, and its principal object 1s to provide a neat and inexpensive dGVICG Of this class, in which papers can be readlly and conveniently attached and detached. The means I employ for accomplishing these results, and various advantages of my improved filing and binding device, are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, 1n which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved filing and binding device. Fig. 2 1s a longitudinal section of the same, parts of the cover being omitted. Fig. 3 is a similar transverse section. Fig. 4 is a plan. Fig. 5 is a perspective of the tongued fastener member. Fig. 6 is a detail end elevation of a portion of my invention.

Like. characters refer to like parts in all figures of the drawing.

My improved filing and binding device consists of a file base, a tongued fastener member, and means incorporated in the file base for detachably securing the fastener member and papers thereto.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, the file base is designated by the numeral 2, the tongued fastener member by 3, the fastener tongues by 4, and the base of the fastener member by the numeral 5. The fastener base 5 is an elongated member, wider than the tongues 4, and perferably has corrugations 6 parallel with its length. At each end are the tongues 4, bent up at right angles to the base 5, and adapted to be pushed through the papers it is desired to file, as shown in Fig. 3.

The file base 2 is usually one of a pair of covers 2 and 7, connectedby a flexible back 8, and adapted to close like a book. On the inner. face of the cover or file base 2, are provided two flanges 9, connected to a base portion 10, and fastened to the file in a suitable manner, as by tangs 11, which are passed through perforations 12, in the file base or cover 2, and then bent flat on said cover, as illustrated in Fig. 2. The binding paper 13, of the file base or cover is then pasted on so as to conceal the bent tan'gs on the under side, and present a neat and workmanlike appearance on the outside of the file. The flanges 9 are inclined upward, and

allow the fastener 3 to be passed in endwise between them, and said fastener member. is then held in that position by meansof the spring of the metal both in the flanges 9, and the fastener base. Two opposite longitudinal edges 14 of the fastener member thus come against the inclined inner faces of said flanges.

The operation of placing papers in my improved filing and binding device consists preferably in first perforating the papers, and then pushing the fastener tongues 4 through the perforations thus formed, bending down the tongues flat on the papers, and sliding thefastene'rs in between the flanges 9 on the file base or cover 2. In order to secure the papers P and fastener 3, securely between the flanges, the ends 15 of said flanges can be bent down, and thus hold the fastener and'papers quite firmly. When it is desired to remove the fastener and the papers on it, the bent down ends are pried up with a pen knife 'or other implement, and the fastener and papers pushed out lengthwise of the flanges.

It is not always necessary to bend down the ends'15, but with thick files of papers it is found that they canbe held more securely in this way.

It is not always necessary to remove. the fastener from the file base or cover 2, to file the papers, but, it may be arranged as in Fig. 1 with the tongues pointing upward, and the papers can then be pushed on, and the tongues .bent down. moving the papers, the fastener can be left between the flanges 9, the tongues being brought out at right angles to thebase and the papers removed as desired.

The device is particularly adapted for use where the sheets of paper are perforated, so as to enable-part of each sheet to be torn away, leaving a stub. When all the sheets have thus been'torn off, as with waiters checks, sales slips, and the like, the stubs being all connected together, can be removed on the fastener. A fresh pad of checks or slips can then be placed in the covers, by running its fastener base in between the flanges 9.

I claim V 1. In a paper filing and binding device,

Likewise in re p tener member by the two upper,

the combination of a file I base, a fastener to'be pushed member having two tongues through papers and a corrugated base portion wider than said tongues and integral therewith, and means incorporated in said filebase, and embodying a pair of parallel flanges for engaging and holding the faslongitudinal edges and the lower portions of the corrugations of its base portion.

2. In a paper filing and binding device,

the combination of a pair of flexibly connected file covers, a detachable fastener member embodying a pair of tongues and a corrugated base portion Wider than said tongues and integral therewith, and means incorporated in one of said file covers for engaging and holding said fastener member by the twoupper, longitudinal edges and the lower portions' of the corrugations of its base portion. r

3. In a paper filing and binding device,

the combination of two file covers, a flexible back joining said covers, a detachable fastener member embodying two tongues to be pushed through papers and integral With a corrugated base portion wider than said tongues, means, embodying a pair of parallel flanges, incorporated in one of said covers, for engaging and holding the fastener member by the two upper, longitudinal edges and the bottom portions of the corrugations of its base, and means for preventing endwise movement of the fastener member.

Signed at NewY'ork, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 5th day of September, A. D. 1913. v

I FRED J. KLEIN. Witnesses:

ALVIN SUMMERS, Gimme D. KING. 

